Factors Associated With Digital Intervention Engagement and Adherence in Patients With Cancer: Systematic Review

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Lucile Montalescot, Louise Baussard, Elodie Charbonnier, and three colleagues ask why patients abandon health apps in this two thousand twenty-four review. Digital tools can educate, monitor, and support people with cancer, but engagement and adherence stay weak. Following PRISMA guidelines, the authors searched four databases for studies from twenty ten to twenty twenty-one. The studies covered adults with cancer using self-help digital tools. Reported factors were sorted into five groups: social, mental, health, technology, and program factors.

Of more than nine thousand studies screened, sixty-one qualified. They spanned eHealth formats across cancer care. The review maps which traits, mental states, health conditions, and design features track with sticking to or dropping digital programs. Designers and clinicians need to know what predicts engagement before building programs patients will finish. The authors present the factor map as a base for adherence-aware design in cancer care.

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Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC11669875